Executive Director Jay Height recently told Shepherd Community Center staff about how one generous donor helped neighbors with a gift of several vehicles. Here\u2019s how a portion of that donation changed the lives of one mother and daughter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMarilyn is a single mother who works hard to raise her teenage daughter well. Marilyn and her daughter have been a part of Shepherd for many years through our partner IPS school, after-school programming, church and food delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marilyn is quick to serve her daughter and others in the community, and both she and her daughter’s contagious kindness have brought joy to many Shepherd staff and volunteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Transportation has been a long-term challenge for the mother and daughter as they’ve navigated safe ways to get to and from school, the grocery store, doctors’ offices and other places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Several months ago, Marilyn found out that the home they’d been renting for eight years was being sold, and they would need to relocate. After a long search for new housing options, they recently landed a great apartment. Although the apartment is perfect for them in many ways, the move required the daughter to change schools, and transportation again became a challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The daughter\u2019s school would not send a bus to pick her up, and the city bus routes didn\u2019t make it feasible for her to attend Shepherd after school or for summer camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marilyn often tells me about the benefits that our programming has on her daughter, and we were all a little heartbroken that there may not be a way for her to get to and from Shepherd after the move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, the opportunity for this mother and daughter to have a vehicle opens the door for them to be in stable housing without having to sacrifice access to basic needs like school, food and medical appointments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The donated vehicle also allows Marilyn\u2019s daughter to maintain healthy relationships, out-of-school learning experiences, and new pathways toward her future career through Shepherd programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I told Marilyn about the car, her first response was, “Now I can drive (my daughter) to after-school and summer camp!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are so excited to continue journeying with this family, and access to a vehicle will play a significant part in making that possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Executive Director Jay Height recently told Shepherd Community Center staff about how one generous donor helped neighbors with a gift of several vehicles. Here\u2019s how a portion of that donation changed the lives of one mother and daughter: \u201cMarilyn is a single mother who works hard to raise her teenage daughter well. Marilyn and her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}